Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Perennial wheat, marketed as Kernza, doesn’t have enough gluten to make bread or pasta; robot-milking systems don’t allow for pasture feeding, requiring cows to remain in barns year-round for the system to be profitable. A closer look, though, shows that most of these techno fixes have serious downsides.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Over the years, us as chefs have seen so many ingredients come in and out of the market due to climate,” says Chef Brian Fowler of BLACKBARN. In reality, destructive food production practices are not a viable way forward for anyone, panelists said. So what do people-focused solutions look like?

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 24, 2024

As the owner of a multi-generational farm, Mardesen has seen industrial agriculture and factory farming take increasing control over meat production in the last few decades. He has to clearly identify the animal, what type of antibiotic was administered, the outcome of the treatment and where the animal was marketed.

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Food Tank

JUNE 10, 2024

A global shift in food systems, including more industrialized agriculture practices and increased use of agrichemicals, is an additional contributor to the land squeeze. Convention to Combat Desertification finds that between 2000 to 2030, up to 3.3

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The Equation

APRIL 4, 2023

The next food and farm bill can help achieve this goal by strengthening the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and protecting it from any harmful funding cuts or changes, by supporting local-food programs and farmers’ markets, and by encouraging food and vegetable consumption in government food security programs.

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Caff

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Currently our programming is focused in four areas: Farm to Market, Policy & Advocacy, Farmer Services, and Ecological Farming. We commit to advancing racial, gender, and environmental justice in our larger systems, as well as in our own workplace. However, more important is a passion for food systems work and CAFF’s mission and values.

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 3, 2024

Kiersten Stead, DCVC BIO Kiersten Stead, Managing Partner, DCVC BIO: “The supervillain is misleading, unhelpful, marketing of food as “natural”, “non-GMO”, “clean”, or suggesting “processed foods are bad” , higher GHG emitting farming methods-“organic” “biodynamic”. Gaining market share for a new product or service takes multiple seasons.

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Daily Yonder

JUNE 28, 2024

First, agriculture certainly matters very much to anyone who buys food, however we live in an increasingly urbanized world where the population is geographically and culturally distanced from rural food production sites. Second, as I mentioned earlier, my work is very much rooted in my own personal experiences.

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Daily Yonder

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

She later became the executive director of the nonprofit Friends of Toppenish Creek , which advocates for improved oversight of industrial agriculture. The bill was first introduced in 2019 and reintroduced in 2021 and 2023, but all three times, it languished in committee.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

But beyond market-based solutions, she also encourages people to engage with legislators. Tucker advises people to tell their stories without contributing to polarizing anti-agriculture media narratives. “I I think that it’s really important to differentiate between small- and family-scale farmers and industrialized agriculture.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 15, 2023

Given all that, the market, which stood at $15 billion two years ago, is projected to hit $24.92 But just like industrial agriculture on land, such operations can harm the environment – and given the role kelp forests play in sequestering carbon, the climate. territorial waters would produce as much protein as 2.3

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

as an account executive in the real estate market for the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited. The older Black farmers who were involved with the Pigford cases regret having gotten entangled with the industrial agriculture paradigm and the USDA, says McCurty of the Black Belt Justice Center.

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Sustainable Harvest International

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

“ “My philosophy has always been that the health of soil, plants, animals, people, and the environment is one.” ” — Rattan Lal, professor of soil science + 2020 World Food Prize Laureate Conventional, or industrial, agriculture uses chemicals to defend crops from weeds, certain insect species, and diseases.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

She later became the executive director of the nonprofit Friends of Toppenish Creek , which advocates for improved oversight of industrial agriculture. A wellhead in Boardman, Oregon. The bill was first introduced in 2019 and reintroduced in 2021 and 2023, but all three times, it languished in committee.

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The Equation

MAY 14, 2024

Their suggested marker bills included provisions that would broaden access to US farm loans for historically underserved borrowers, help farmers address the climate crisis, better protect food and farm workers, halt industrial agriculture mergers by strengthening relevant antitrust laws, and expand SNAP benefits and government nutrition programs.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

If Nebraska is a quilt, the seamstresses are its farmers – agriculture has defined the landscape of Nebraska to such an extent that you can literally see it from space. Of course, when I arrived it didn’t take me long to find out about the curiously perfect squares.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Before 2013, many Silicon Valley investors were wary of agritech , the name given to the application of advanced technologies and computing to agriculture. Farming is more complex and fragmented than other sectors of the economy, in part due to the uncertainties of weather, environmental pressures, global markets, and local policies.

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 6, 2024

Joyce’s book, Remembering Peasants , sets out to document this fast-vanishing population, which has been devastated by social change, war and the relentless expansion of industrial agriculture.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

Although California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) aims to recharge them by regulating draws, the dried-up lake bed has long been collapsing under the massive weight of industrialized agriculture—to the tune of a couple of inches per month.

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The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

What they do need are huge amounts of water, huge amounts of pesticides to artificially correct the unnatural monoculture, and huge amounts of fertilizers because industrial agriculture practices deplete nutrients from the soil. The farm will have a market center to sell locally grown produce and artisan goods made by residents.

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

Our predilection for calorie-dense foods, means that companies invest more time and money creating them, which makes us eat more of them and ultimately expands the market (along with our waistlines!) The ‘Junk Food Cycle’ is one of Dimbleby’s main concerns. Ultra-processed foods currently make up 57% of our diets.

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The Equation

MAY 9, 2024

But when a few companies grow so large that they control the market for goods and services we consider essential, that is bad. Google, Apple, Amazon, and Meta have all been accused of using their market power to undermine competition and limit consumers’ choices. Big=bad when it comes to corporate power over food Big isn’t always bad.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 8, 2024

The application of nitrogen, phosphate, and potash fertilizers on cropland is a foundation of industrialized agriculture. Another goal was to increase competition in the fertilizer market, where just a few firms dominate, with the hopes of lowering fertilizer prices for farmers and food costs for consumers. According to the U.S.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 3, 2024

We join him as he transplants flats of vegetables on a Wisconsin Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm, meets a small-scale rice producer in Italy’s Piedmont, and prepares a market-to-table meal in Lyon, France. In the end, From the Ground Up paints a hopeful picture of how agricultural practices could evolve for the better.

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Daily Yonder

MARCH 14, 2024

Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food Industry by Austin Frerick Island Press (March 26, 2024) Few books about America’s industrial agriculture system and food industry uncover the billionaires behind its biggest corporations.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 12, 2025

In her foreword, Joan wrote: Across this country, a movement is spreading that acknowledges a long-ignored reality: Most of what we pay for our food goes to companies that transport, process, and market what comes off the farms, not to farmers themselves. She was a happy and inspiring warrior against the forces of industrial agriculture.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

The rules governing the development and sale of GM foods date to the early 1990s, when Monsanto was preparing to bring the first major GM crop to market, Roundup Ready soybeans. Without requiring research that could flag potential harm, the FDA simply believes industry claims. This was a market opportunity of astounding proportions.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

More importantly, the agency aims to catalyze new, premium markets for products such as climate-smart corn, soybeans, and beef, which it hopes will spur farmers to continue these practices far into the future. The emerging market for climate-friendly products, he added, represents “a transformational opportunity for U.S. agriculture.”

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 15, 2024

A new report by Friends of the Earth US and Socially Responsible Agriculture Project (SRAP) backs up that sentiment. The study suggests that methane digesters create incentives for the growth of industrial agriculture, further entrenching food systems that harm both people and the environment.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 31, 2023

The film unravels some of the issues that have driven our present-day problems, and points to a way forward that draws on the time-honoured practices of mixed rotational farming, eschewing extractive industrial food production for a more hopeful, sustainable future. Film poster courtesy of Mystic Arts. on Amazon Prime/Apple TV/iTunes.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Meg Wilcox You Can’t Market Manure at Lunchtime: And Other Lessons from the Food Industry for Creating a More Sustainable Company By Maisie Ganzler Many, many years ago, I spent a long time covering the world of sustainable business practices. Additionally, they say, children must have a voice in policymaking.

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Civil Eats

JULY 9, 2024

Land O’Lakes, the company known to most Americans only as a longtime purveyor of butter wrapped in bright yellow packaging, had two adjoining tables showcasing two of its more specialized businesses: pesticides and carbon markets. Think: planting trees that hold carbon in South America to balance emissions from a factory in South Carolina.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

This frequency with which polluting industries are built in these communities is evidence of ongoing environmental injustice. Growing up i n Michigan, the rapid consolidation of dairy farms due to industrialized agriculture led her family to the very difficult decision to sell their dairy.

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ProAg

JULY 20, 2023

An Agricultural Competition Partnership, launched by the Biden administration, is seeking to “crackdown on price-gouging and other anti-competitive practices in food and agriculture markets.” President Biden announced the creation of a new “Farmer Seed Liaison” that will work with patent issues in the seed industry.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

This frequency with which polluting industries are built in these communities is evidence of ongoing environmental injustice. Growing up i n Michigan, the rapid consolidation of dairy farms due to industrialized agriculture led her family to the very difficult decision to sell their dairy.

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Civil Eats

JULY 8, 2024

There, plants haven’t had their survival characteristics bred out of them in favor of qualities like super-charged yields and other features of industrial agriculture. or its market appeal.” For many years, Europeans and Americans took whatever they found in these and other biodiverse places without asking, or paying, anyone.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

This is about allowing a technology to be developed and potentially marketed.” Many of these points echo the “Great Reset” conspiracy theories promoted by far-right political and media figures dating back to the pandemic, Nusa Urbancic, CEO of the Changing Markets Foundation, an advocacy group favoring sustainable markets, tells Sentient.

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